Re: Aaron & Hardyman in West Yorkshire

Hi. Your Aaron line was already in America before the Aarons with whom I am somewhat familiar arrived in West Yorkshire from Germany. Henry Aaron was a Jew & left Germany in the late 1700s; he married Mary Stephenson (a Halifax W.Yorkshire girl) in 1793. In 1810 Henry set up a shoe shop in Halifax, & to this day the shoe business in Halifax is still in the Aaron family. A son of Henry & Mary was Benjamin Aaron. In 1821 Benjamin married Elizabeth Hardiman, who was a sister of my great-great-grandmother Mary Hardiman/Hardyman Jagger.